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The performance from these Latvian musicians is as soulful as could be imagined...[Plainscapes] – with exquisite gradations of vibrato from the two strings – is invested with rare space, profundity... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2020, Editor's Choice
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The centrepiece is a stunning performance of Peteris Vasks’s Plainscapes, three wordless linked movements…infused with a strong Pärtian flavour, with important roles for violin and cello, plated... — More…
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Vasks: Distant Light
and Piano Quartet & Summer Dances
Vadim Gluzman (violin), Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Hannu Lintu
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Special offer. Max Richter: Recomposed - The Four Seasons, Vasks, Pärt
Fenella Humphreys (violin)
Covent Garden Sinfonia, Ben Palmer
Humphreys mines the repetitive melodies for subtelties of colour, rather than drama. — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, October 2019, Concerto Choice
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This searing release confirms Vasks’s international stature and, specifically, his affinity for string writing…Rysanov with the exceptional Sinfonietta Rīga wrings every drop of melancholic... — More…
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Vasks: Musica dolorosa, Musica serena, Musica Appassionata & Klātbūtne
Münchner Rundfunkorchester, Ivan Repušić
Three of Vasks’s cycle of four ‘musicae’ for string orchestra are given radiant performances...Each work has a different emotional impetus but all f low with an immediate, searing lyricism from... — More…
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Contemporary
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Opus Klassik, 2022, Composer of the Year
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Vasks: Presence
RecommendedSol Gabetta (cello), Irène Timacheff-Gabetta (organ)
Amsterdam Sinfonietta, Candida Thompson
There's a simplicity and immediacy to Vasks's musical languge, not that far removed in character and spirituality to the sound world explored in John Taverner's The Protecting Veil, which makes... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 27th November 2015
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2016, Concerto Choice
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Special offer. Vasks: Oboe Concerto
Albrecht Mayer (oboe), Latvian National Symphony Orchestra, Andris Poga
Cast as a ‘Morning’ and ‘Evening Pastorale’ separated by a ‘Scherzando’, [the Oboe Concerto is] a kind of gentle day-in-a-rural-life and is beautifully played by soloist Albrecht Mayer. — More…
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Vasks: Concerto No. 2 for Violin and String Orchestra 'In Evening Light'
Antje Weithaas (violin, leader)
Camerata Bern
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Contemporary Music
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2025, Instrumentalist of the Year (Antje Weithaas)
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